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The total number of protected area records in the January 2019 release of the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is 242,276 comprising of 221,503 polygons and 20,773 points, covering 245 countries and territories.

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Highlights:

European Environment Agency (EEA) Common Database on Designated Areas (CDDA): Complete update of 48 countries and territories. 7,027 polygons have been added to the WDPA, along with 795 points. Points in the CDDA were previously buffered before being submitted to the WDPA. This is no longer the case, and as a result 3,062 polygons were converted to points during this update. 91,960 polygons have been updated or verified.


Chile: Update of all national sites in Chile. Chile provided a full national update in January 2018. Since then there has been a further addition of two new marine/ coastal protected areas: Tortel Área Marina Costera Protegida (6,702km2), Seno Almirantazgo Área Marina Costera Protegida (764km2), and 2 terrestrial sites: Melimoyu Parque Nacional (1,054km2), Pumalín Douglas Tompkins Parque Nacional (4,023km2). Some governance types, ownership types and management authorities were updated too. The boundary of one Ramsar site, Bahia Lomas, has been updated. Aracurias UNESCO MAB site also has an updated polygon, and has expanded from two small sites covering 933km2 to its new extent of 11,428km2.


Country

Update type

Polygon

Point


Point converted to polygon

Added

Removed

Updated


Added

Removed

Updated


Chile Complete
4
0
202

0
0
0

0
Albania Complete 2
0
55

742
0
0
0
Austria Complete 0 0 1159 0 0 0 0
Belgium Complete 23 43 1422 0 0 0 0
Bulgaria Complete 32 2 1014 0 0 0 0
Cyprus Complete 0 0 56 0 0 0 0
Czech Republic Complete 57 19 2606 0 0 0 0
Germany Complete 216 110 17430 0 0 0 0
Denmark Complete 0 0 1917 0 0 0 0
Estonia Complete 3948 185 7522 0 0 0 945
Finland Complete 785 634 12058 0 0 0 0
France Complete 97 5 2787 0 0 0 0
Great Britain Complete 0 0 9387 0 0 0 0
Greece Complete 0 0 803 0 0 0 0
Greenland Complete 0 0 12 0 0 0 0
Hungary Complete 1 0 307 0 0 0 0
Ireland Complete 0 0 155 0 0 0 0
Iceland Complete 0 2 112 1 0 0 0
Italy Complete 0 0 871 0 0 0 0
Liechtenstein Complete 2 5 39 0 0 0 0
Lithuania Complete 0 0 479 0 0 0 0
Luxembourg Complete 7 0 116 0 0 0 0
Latvia
Complete 0 32 677 0 0 0 0
Spain Complete 16 1 1778 0 0 0 0
Saint Martin Complete 0 2 18 0 0 0 0
The former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia
Complete 0 0 75 4 0 0 0
Malta Complete 30 0 228 0 0 0 0
Montenegro Complete 0 1 3 48 0 0 0
Martinique Complete 11 1 56 0 0 0 0
Mayotte Complete 8 7 20 0 0 0 0
Netherlands Complete 0 0 180 0 0 0 0
Norway Complete 82 11 2921 0 0 0 0
Poland Complete 14
2 2032 0 0 0 0
Portugal Complete 4 0 225 0 0 0 0
Reunion Complete 0 1 31 0 0 0 0
Romania Complete 169 0 775 0 0 0 0
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Complete 0 0 30 0 0 0 0
Saint Pierre and Miquelon Complete 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
Serbia Complete 46 2 319 0 0 0 0
Slovakia Complete 39 22 1152 0 0 0 0
Slovenia Complete 1 2 1174 0 0 0 0
Sweden Complete 470 23 13660 0 0 0 0
Switzerland Partial 4 0 200 0 0 0 0


Added: New feature added in the WDPA (i.e. a new WDPAID was created)

Removed: Number of feature removed from the WDPA (i.e. a WDPAID was removed from the database)

Updated: Modifications/updates of the geometry or some attributes of existing feature in the WDPA (i.e. a feature with an existing WDPAID.

Map of Protected Areas based upon monthly update

Citation: UNEP-WCMC (2019). Protected areas map of the world, January 2019 Available at: www.protectedplanet.net

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WDPA Manual

WDPA User Manual: We are pleased to announce that the WDPA User Manual has been translated into French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic. Additionally, the Manual has been updated with an appendix on WDPA Data Contributor Agreements (Appendix 2), and has undergone general updates and edits based on user feedback. Version 1.5 of the User Manual is now available in five languages via the following links:

English: http://wcmc.io/WDPA_Manual

French: http://wcmc.io/WDPA_Manual_FR

Spanish: http://wcmc.io/WDPA_Manual_ES

Russian: http://wcmc.io/WDPA_Manual_RU

Arabic: http://wcmc.io/WDPA_Manual_AR

New: Protected Area Management Effectiveness– Country pages on Protected Planet now display information on the management effectiveness of national-level protected areas, as reported by data providers. Pages for individual protected areas now also provide information on whether the sites have Monitoring and Evaluation data in the Global Database on Protected Area Management Effectiveness (GD-PAME).

Summary of current data in preparation:

The data set status is defined as either:
1) New data set received, 2) Under review by UNEP-WCMC, 3) Under validation by data provider or 4) Final approval stages.

Brazil: Under validation by data provider

Canada: Under review by UNEP-WCMC

Colombia Final approval stages

Costa Rica: Under validation by data provider

Falkands Islands (Malvinas): Under validation by data provider

Mozambique: Under validation by data provider

Nigeria: Under validation by data provider

Peru: Under validation by data provider

Seychelles: Under validation by data provider

Kenya: Under review by UNEP-WCMC

Vietnam: Under review by UNEP-WCMC

Cameroon: Under review by UNEP-WCMC

Congo (Democratic Republic of): Under review by UNEP-WCMC


[date published_date] 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC